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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Martin Luther

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
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Avoid Hairs Need Ourselves Temptation
I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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God Learning Myself Simplicity Word Writing
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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Faith Future Hope Inspirational Myself Pieces Plant Tree
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
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Alive Book Hands Myself Prayer Religious Run Talk
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
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Greatness Myself Power Religious Simplicity
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.
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Fight Himself Strong Teaching
Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father’s heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.
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Eyes Father God Heart See Walk World
The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.
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Action Book Failure Greatness Prayer Religious
A gospel that doesn’t deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
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Book Day Deal Issues Religious
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
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God Kindness Mercy Prayer Religious Worth
As long as we live there is never enough singing.
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Enough Live Music Sing
Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I’ll show you his god.
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God Himself Men Money Myself Time
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
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Build Evil Goodness Himself Man
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
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Accomplishment Result Time Wait
If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.
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Beginning Instruction Oneself Start Teaching Young
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
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God Myself Religious Right Sin Thankful Yourself
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
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Change Evidence Experience God Grace Greatness Hide Lying Men Soul Strong
All of a Christian’s life is one of repentance.
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Life Oneself Religious
Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
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God Hide Religious Suffering
It’s not what I don’t know that bothers me – it’s what I do know and don’t do!
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Action Myself
I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
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Commitment Death Deserve God Hell Himself Myself Satisfaction Suffering
Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
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Deep Myself Religious Save Sin Strange
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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Alone Believe Death Faith Himself Lonely Man
I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
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Faith God Guide Myself Path Way
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the ‘doers of the word’ in faith and love, and not the ‘mere hearers,’ who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.
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Expression God Learning Love Power Practice Talk
The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc; but how few acknowledge these as God’s special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.
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Body Gift God Gratitude Health Reaction Thankful
I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
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Body Change Forever God Myself Soul Trust Word World

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

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